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Professor A John Camm
Professor Camm studied medicine at Guy's Hospital Medical School, London (England). After qualifying in 1971
he worked at Guy's Hospital for three years and then spent a year in the U.S.A. (Burlington, Vermont) before
working at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London. He spent 12 years there, first as a Junior, then as a Wellcome
Senior Lecturer and finally as the Sir Ronald Bodley Scott Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine. In 1986
Professor Camm moved to St. George's Hospital Medical School in London as Professor of Clinical
Cardiology. Professor Camm was elected the Chairman of Medicine in October 1990, a post rotated from in
1995.
Professor Camm has a broad range of professional interests. His major speciality is cardiac arrhythmias but he is
also much involved in clinical cardiac electrophysiology, cardiac pacemakers, risk stratification in post myocardial
infarction, heart failure and cardiomyopathy patients. He has a major interest in cardiovascular safety of cardiac
and non-cardiac drugs. Professor Camm has given over 1000 lectures to international audiences, written more
than 822 papers and appears on over 1193 abstracts.
Professor Camm is a Fellow of The Royal College of Physicians and also a Fellow of the American College of
Cardiology, the American Heart Association, the Council of Geriatric Cardiology and the European Society of
Cardiology. He is also a member of the British Cardiac Society, the British Pacing and Electrophysiology Group
and the North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology. Professor Camm is a past chairman of the
European Working Group of Cardiac Arrhythmias, a past president of the British Pacing & Electrophysiology
group, the past President of the British Cardiac Society and a past Council Member of the Royal College of
Physicians of London. He is also past Chairman of the Joint Cardiology Committee (Royal College of Physicians)
and Chairman of the Ventricular Arrhythmias and Sudden Cardiac Death guidelines Group (AHA, ACC, ESC).
Professor Camm is a former Member of the Board of Trustees of the North American Society of Pacing and
Electrophysiology and the British Cardiac Society, the Royal College of Physicians (London) and the British Heart
Foundation.
Professor Camm is a current Board Member of the International Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology Society
(ICPES), the European Heart Rhythm Assoication and the American College of Cardiology. He is currently
President of the arrhythmia Alliance.
Professor Camm is Editor in Chief of Europace, an editor of Clinical Cardiology and Editor of the European
Society of Cardiology Textbook of Cardiovascular Medicine and an editorial board member of a further 15
journals. Professor Camm is widely recognised for his research and teaching roles at national and international
levels.